United States

Full stack

Data Scientist

Data engineering

Data Analysis

AI/ML Engineering

Systems Design

Generative AI

AI Design

National Institute of Technology 

Vishal Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

Problem-solving

Advanced data analytics

AI/ML

Conversational AI

Data mining

Machine learning

Phenom

Python

PyTorch

React

React Native

Airflow

Apache Spark

ChatGPT

Databricks

Java

JavaScript

Jupyter Notebook

Numpy

BigML

Pandas

TensorFlow

GitLab

HTML

PostgreSQL

Data visualisation

Database management

Product roadmap

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Lead design and development of Geospatial data pipelines and the ML/Agentic-AI systems behind Amazon's last-mile delivery maps; lead adoption of OpenStreetMap-derived datasets, Overture Maps, and open-source GIS tooling across Amazon Maps.

Designed Spark ingestion for world-wide geospatial data and productionized an LSTM model for real-time driver-activity classification from GPS trajectories (ACM SIGSPATIAL / IWCTS 2022). 

• Led ingestion from international third-party data providers and technical coordination for map launches across 10+ countries. • Earlier (Chennai): built OCR-based content pipelines for international Kindle markets (Japan, China) and filed a patent application on Japanese-script character recognition.

Vishal Kumar🇺🇸